The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| THE death rate of the world is computed about
/ G. q minute %, 100 s3j a day and 35,639 year;
/ tae birth rate i; 70 a minute, l0O,5OO day, and
! 70, 1872 900 year.
! The Public Museum at Nantes, France, has
/ just acquired the casllet in which was placed
! the feart of Anne of Brittany, Queen or france
and Navarro. II is of solid gold
! A corn FACTORY" at Harrison, Me-, put up
about zoo, 900 cans this season. one at Dixfield,
/ same State. put up about 900 cans, and has
! force of men at work now shipping fourteen
! tons daily.
! INDIANAPOLIS was torn up the other day by
the statement Of a negro that he had seen the
Mayor intoxicated. Upon investigation it was
/ found that there was something in the charge,
only 1t was the negro who was drunk.
! a BosToN LEATHER FIRM sold 1000 feet of
grain leather to a manufacturer at l019c per
| foot. In few days the bill was returned to
! them with demand for two cents deduction
| for one-quarter foot short measure. They al
! lowed it,
! A NUMBER of young ladies in the City of Next
/ co have organized a society with the name OF
/ bona Josefa Ortis de DOnngueZ," in honor OF
| that noted woman who. as Mayor of Queretaro,
! played an Important part in the drama OF the
| independence OF $40.
Mrs. JESSE JAMES. the wife of the noted out
law, has been employed for some time as
clerk" in a shooting gallery in Cairo. but has
recently lost her position as she did not draw
| custom as expected. She reported to the police
the other day that she had been robbed of a gun
and pistol.
GLADSTONE is n great walker He passes
everybody as he goes down Regent street, and
! by exercise keeps himself strong Lord Sails
/ bury passes from the Foreign Office to the
| House of Lords when he does not use his car
! rage, at the rate of about mile an hour. He
weighs 80 pounds and takes little exercise.
| HERE is a discouraging item for fond and
| doting parents: "Of six young ladies whose
education at Vassar cost $4,000 each, five mar
| ried horse lawyers and have to give music
| lessons to make a living for the family The
other one is still single, but leaning toward
country parson ON a salary of $3.50 per year"
MICHAEL PIGGoTT arrived at Castle Garden on
Thursday morning. on the steamer Italy, from
| Dublin. He was dressed in an old-time costume
| that attracted general attention. He had no
money, aud said be intended to throw himself
| upon the bounty of the American people. He
gave his age A, but is said to look o. He will
| be returned.
| JOHN KREICKS LITTLE BOY, of Jackson, is
only five years old, but he has nerve. The other
| day he broke his leg, and the next time he came
| TO see the boy the doctor found he had sheared
away all the bandages and court-plaster. He
| allowed he wanted to show his sister where the
| break was. and he never whimpered when the
doctor screwed the injured member back to its
place
AT meeting of the biological and microscop-
| ical section of the Philadelphia Academy of
| Natural Sciences on Monday evening there was
only one bald-headed man in the gathering of
savdntS. This was accounted for upon the
| theory that the persistent use of the optic
| nerve and retina by means of the microscope
has a beneficial aud stimulating effect upon the
capillary tubes"
| n.
the finding of an old button shoe. We are told
with great sincerity that if young girl on find
| ing one would count the buttons remaining
it she would be able to tell exactly the number
| of years which would elapse before her mar
riage, each button representing one year 1t is
| looked upon as great piece Of misfortune (by
| the credulous) to find shoe minus buttons.
STEPHEN McCABE, New York broom peddler,
is the Capt Cutie of his day. He wears an iron
hook in lieu of a missing arm, with which, he
says, he can thread a needle, write his name or
| carry one end of packing box or trunk. When
| | want to write. be says, Il unScrew the hook
| and put my pencil in the hole To thread
| needle put a cork in the hole and needle in
the cork l thread the needle with the other
| hand
A METEoRIC BLAZE was seen on Wednesday
| night, in and near Kingston, n. Y. There were
several showers, and the effect produced was
| dazzling. One meteor exploded apparently
near the earth's surface, and the display of col
ored lights which followed was similar to that
| Of a large skyrocket. After midnight the sky
| was nearly free from clouds, and local astron-
omers say the spectacle was one long to be re
membered.
In a certain studio in Philadelphia the place
of honor is occupied by a series of studies in
marble of a beautiful foot 1t is taken in every
position that foot could be supposed to occu-
Ply, in repose, as it would appear walking, run
ming, balanced on the toes. Once. it is said the
| sculptor saw a human foot that was fit to take
| cast from. He never expected to get another
model of any use to him, and perpetuated that
in a variety Of attitudes.
A YOUNG MAN covered with the dust of travel
walked into a recruiting station in Portland,
| Me- the other day and wanted to enlist He
was examined and rejected because he weighed
only 1876 pounds. He said that he had walked
| from the northern part of the State; that he
weighed i35 pounds when he started and that
| he thought that he would fat up some if he bad
a chance. The recruiting officer told him to call
again, ard in less than a a week he did and had
gained so decidedly in flesh that he was readily
accepted.
THE Queens jubilee was recently tardy cele-
braled in DENLY Dale, Eng. by the baking
and eating of an immense pie, the traditional
way in which DENLY Dale celebrates The pie
was eight feet in diameter and two feet deep
1t contained S36 pounds of flour, 1850 pounds Of
beef, $50 of mutton, leo of veal, $50 of lamb,
| $50 of pork, 1870 of lard 30 OF butter 80 couples
| of rabbits. hares, A. fowls 40 pigeons, IL
grouse, q ducks, 4 plavers turkey, 5 geese.
| and 100 small birds, togetherwith $50 pounds of
potatoes 20 pounds of beef suet, and 40 pounds
of drippngs.
HAsHIsH is superseding morphine and vapor-
izen ether, it is said, in the affection of the Pa
risiad dilattant drunllards They have founded
a hashish club on the Rue st. Michel where they
| meet every Friday. The amount of the drug
| which each shall take is prescribed by DOCTOR
| and the dose is prepared by a chemist, both
| members of the club. 1t is taken in pills and
| not Rchewed drunk or smoked as are the ORR
| entail fashions. Each of the members is bound
| to describe to the Others either i'll writing or
| verbally, his sensations as the drug gains its
| influence over him.
PARIS is adopting wood paving. The orgi-
nal stone pavements were done away with be-
cause they were too handy for the people who
| wanted something to thioV in case of revolu-
ton. Victor Hugo called them 1.-THE last re-
source of the people" Macldam was next used
and then asphalt, which. being too hard on the
horses, Is now giving place to wood 1t is
pointed out however, that, for insurgents. the
petroleum soaked wood will be as handy as the
stones were. box of matches would max @
torn up paving about as efficient an instrument
of war as Greek fire
THE first will of dead Indian ever filed in
Washington Territory was recently offered for
probate in Tacoma. 1t was the will of Milton
Fisher an Indian who died on the PuyalllIp res
| ervation. 1t provides that his properly of forty
| acres shall revert to his brother The Tacoma
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